6. Toddlers in a donkey cart being led by a nurse at Park Royal Hospital, Willesden, London, August 1925. Wellcome Library, London

7. Queen Mary visits the Marie Curie Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, March 1937. She is accompanied by Eve Curie (daughter of Marie Curie), Dr Henri Coutard, Director of the X-ray Therapy Department of the Curie Foundation in Paris, and the Viscountess Runciman. Wellcome Library, London

8. Sister-Tutor Mackenzie demonstrates a scalp bandage to student nurses at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, 1943. The original caption read: “In this group are girls from Germany, Austria, South Africa, Canada and Australia. Third from left is a student who hopes to take her knowledge back to Siam.” Imperial War Museum

9. Nurses talk to sister on a balcony, London Hospital, c. 1962. Wellcome Library, London

10. Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons nurses pose with leaflets in Charing Cross Road, London in the 1980s. Medact/Wellcome Library, London